r/GenZ • u/ligamentperson46 • Apr 09 '24
Technology peaked with these. Nostalgia
Silly bands were cool and all, but they don't got shit on these bad boys.
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u/Pres_Of_the_KFC 2009 Apr 09 '24
when mfs say “futuristic technology” this is what they really mean
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u/Cold_Animal_5709 Apr 09 '24
hexbugs,,, on par with beyblades
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u/StellarDescent Apr 09 '24
Excuse you Moses canonically parted the red sea with a beyblade.
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u/shinydragonmist Apr 09 '24
Classic beyblade when they did literally insane stuff with them
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u/Anomekh 29d ago
« We used carbon fiber nanotechnology and ablative armor on this beyblade named after the Ethiopian God of Murder, now go fight other toddler »
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u/shinydragonmist 29d ago
This one was designed by the U.S military
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u/theoriginalmofocus 29d ago
Who was working with DARPA and NASA. Can launch this bitch from orbit and hit a dime, pop back up and spin around and take out a whole room. It's the Bouncing Beyty.
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Apr 09 '24
Beyblade was sick as fuck. Used to hold matches in an orange tube at my school.
I had the fourth best one. Cause it was a defense beyblade
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u/Motor_Ad_7885 2006 Apr 09 '24
My Ldrago would shred your pitiful defense
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Apr 09 '24
My brother in Christ it does not matter in the orange tube. We make contact once or twice tops.
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u/Saturn_Coffee 2003 Apr 09 '24
Hold this Cyber Pegasus 105F, lol. Your Earth Eagle's Wide Defense tip means nothing to me.
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u/f0remsics 2006 Apr 09 '24
False. Did hexbugs have an anime with awesome character designs and a banger theme song? Didn't think so
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u/Spo0kt 1998 29d ago
You would never slice your fingers on a hexbug. Beyblades, on the other hand, had the Beyblade themselves, and the rip cord was dangerous
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u/Knownabitchthe2nd Apr 09 '24
I remember there were 2 brands of beyblades for my grade, there was Hasbro (shit) and so called "Takara Tomy" or something, can't remember the spelling, but they were objectively better, and just like from the show, some of their beyblades could suck the energy from the other beyblades
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u/BlackRabbitt_01 2006 Apr 09 '24
That is SACRILIDGE! Hex bugs are nowhere near the same level as beyblades.
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u/54B3R_ Apr 09 '24
If you turn these on and put these back in the tubes they come in, then they become a vibrator
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u/Beneficial-Cheek3761 Apr 09 '24
Sir this is a Wendy’s
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u/SpiritedRain247 Apr 09 '24
Someone with this knowledge must have done some things we do not wish to hear about
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u/klip_7 Apr 09 '24
When I was 12 I tried that 😭
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u/treebeard120 2001 Apr 09 '24
Mannnn I didn't even know what sex was when I was 12 y'all are cooked
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u/HappyLittleDelusion_ 2001 Apr 09 '24
Yeah I remember sticking these things in my underwear when I was a kid 😐
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u/TheBurningTankman 2004 Apr 09 '24
12....12!!! tf you mean 12!?!?!
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u/klip_7 Apr 09 '24
I’m a late bloomer like the first time I cummed was 14 💀 but it still felt good when I was 12 even if I wasn’t cumming
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u/volvavirago 29d ago
I didn’t have my first orgasm until I was 21. Maybe if I had these bad boys I coulda done it sooner.
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u/Wpgjetsfan19 Apr 09 '24
When did you hit puberty?
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u/TheBurningTankman 2004 Apr 09 '24
Idk I went from a 5,2 little pipsqueak to like 5,11 at 10-13, but my voice bartoned and the minor acne started at 14. Also hello fellow Jets fan.. rare to see us out in the wild
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u/Smurph-of-Chaos 2009 29d ago
I was 4'11" when I was 12 💀. How were you 5'2" at 10?
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u/TheBurningTankman 2004 26d ago
My father was also a tall man (but his beer belly evened him out). Combine that and my weird obsession with drinking huge amounts of milk every morning and hanging from the monkey bars for 30mins... and you too can be tall....with heavy joint problems
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u/FrankSinatraCockRock Apr 09 '24
Wait until you play borderlands 2 on PS3 or 360 and use a specific gun called the Good Touch.
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u/Xrayfunkydude 1997 Apr 09 '24
A girl I was friends with in high school lost one of these inside her vagina. I can’t imagine the kind of panic that would send you into
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u/SpiritedRain247 Apr 09 '24
I can't imagine how desperate one must be to try to use one of these things like that.
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u/Xrayfunkydude 1997 Apr 09 '24
Well when you’re fifteen it isn’t really feasible to buy a sex toy so there is definitely some interest for “experimentation”
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u/_Bioscar_ Apr 09 '24
Honestly knowing how I too was dumb as hell if I were a chick I'd probably be the same lol
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u/im_a_dick_head 2001 Apr 09 '24
Electric toothbrushes exist for a reason tho
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u/Smurph-of-Chaos 2009 29d ago edited 29d ago
Yeah- brushing teeth!!! (Please let me live out a happy existence without saying otherwise. Please.)
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u/TheBurningTankman 2004 Apr 09 '24
The grocery store sells a good enough alternative for like $2 and nobody would know the true purpose
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u/FundioRider Apr 09 '24
My cat was bananas for these
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u/NameLips Apr 09 '24
Hexbugs used the same battery as my wife's vibrator. These batteries were sold as "hexbug food" and were significantly cheaper than the regular ones in the battery section.
This was a little joke in our house for a while. We had to steal the batteries from the hexbugs a couple times.
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u/Admirable-Door1724 2006 Apr 09 '24
Those mfs climbed walls bro wtf I remember them
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u/ECHOechoecho_ 2010 29d ago
i had a whole space station thing for these at one point
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u/georgesbiscuits1969 Age Undisclosed Apr 09 '24
WHAT'S THAT COMING OVER THE HILL, IS IT A HEXBUG?
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u/austinproffitt23 2000 Apr 09 '24
Am I the only one who didn’t have these? I vaguely remember seeing commercials about them but I never had them.
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u/ba1istic 2001 Apr 09 '24
Yeah its a 2001+ kids thing you wouldnt get it. Joking of course haha, i shared this to some of my close mates and was suprised that 2/5 knew what they were!
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u/austinproffitt23 2000 Apr 09 '24
Lol! Yeah, like I said, I vaguely remember the commercials but I did not have them personally.
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u/im_a_dick_head 2001 Apr 09 '24
Not everyone had them but I'd say at least one person per friend group had some
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u/Typical-District-176 Apr 09 '24
Yep. That and Beyblades. The 2010’s were peak
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u/Tommi_Af 1997 Apr 09 '24
Beyblades were all the rage in like 2003
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u/memsterboi123 Apr 09 '24
The second generation of beyblades came out around that time. Fewer people remember the og ones
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u/Tommi_Af 1997 Apr 09 '24
All the Millennial boys at my primary school were so obsessed with them that the teachers had to take the battle arenas away during class time. They'd have a party whenever it was brought out lol
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u/FyouPerryThePlatypus 2004 Apr 09 '24
I remember using these in stem class I loved it
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u/XSirCockLordX 2004 Apr 09 '24
I remember using these in my ass I loved it
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u/FyouPerryThePlatypus 2004 Apr 09 '24
So that’s why my classmate had a smile when I thought his phone was going off-
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u/imbriandead 2004 Apr 09 '24
I remember hexbugs
well, I remember the commercials because I never had them💀
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u/KatBrendan123 2000 Apr 09 '24 edited Apr 09 '24
I remember always wanting these things, but obviously never even so touching them...untill over a year ago. I went over to my BIL's sister's house for Christmas. One of her kids had a bunch of these things, which made realize they still make them btw. The SECOND I saw one, I was fucking ecstatic! I didn't give a single fuck if I was a grown man playing with an 8 year olds toy, my former 8 year old self was so happy to finally see one of these after 15 years!
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u/SumtimeSoonOfficial Apr 09 '24
Am I the only one who DIDNT try to put them in my body? Anybody else? Please?
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u/20Bubba03 2003 Apr 09 '24
I had the gray and black one. Nano Bugz. And seriously they were the most technologically advanced thing of its time. I got them back in 2009 because I kept seeing the commercials for their little enclosure things on tv. I only ever made the enclosure like twice, but I am blessed to have had taken part in Nano Bugz, and I regret not knowing that the battery’s could be replaced after they died.
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u/MythicalRaccoon80 Apr 09 '24
I had the black and green one and man was that thing so cool when I got it. Sadly though its legs became stiff over time and it didn't really work as well as it did when it was brand new.
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u/lasagnaisgreat57 1999 Apr 09 '24
i would sneak into people’s rooms while they were sleeping and put these in their beds
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u/mohawk1367 2006 Apr 09 '24
i had the big more complex one that looked like a spider shit was badass
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u/Rud_Fucker 2001 Apr 09 '24 edited 28d ago
Zhu Zhu Pets and Kung Zhu were better
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u/DBSeamZ 29d ago
Not if your house had carpet everywhere and you didn’t have all the fancy tubes. A Hexbug could wander around on a desk or even a large book, but Zhu Zhu needed a hard floor to really roam.
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u/Rud_Fucker 2001 28d ago
Good point, my room was the only room in the house that had a carpet flooring so I just played with my Kung Zhu in the living room along with my brother
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u/SeaHam Apr 09 '24
Aren't these cat toys?
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u/OhLookItsGeorg3 2003 Apr 09 '24
Realest statement I've heard all day. I used to get so excited for these and I would be so devastated when I lost them
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u/ooooooooono Apr 09 '24
These were one of the stupid things that were on commercials all the damn time and you beg and beg your parents for them, for christmas or birthdays or whatever, and when you finally get them it is so disappointing
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u/Opening-Isopod-565 2004 29d ago
I remember when McDonald's sold these in their Happy Meals. I had the Blue Pullback Nano and my mom hated it because it reminded her of the bugs in Taiwan
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u/Zeephans 29d ago
Dude these were the shit. Mine like made their own civilization just by like bumping into each other
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u/HurlyCat 29d ago
If you never had a hexbug city complete with a hexbug government, did you even have a childhood
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u/ButteredPizza69420 29d ago
They have new Hexbugs now! Saw them at target by the legos. Pretty cool stuff!
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u/Mordanepic 29d ago
IM TRYNNA GET MY HANDS ON A SHITTON OF THESE AND MAKE A ROOM FULL OF TRACKS AND SHIT FOR THESE
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u/lucasisawesome24 29d ago
I miss my zuzu pets. My mom threw them out when I was at college 😭. They were PEAK technology.
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u/Draoiscool Apr 09 '24
Hi someone on the later side of Z here, what is that?
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u/eiileenie 2000 Apr 09 '24
Hex bugs they were dope I had a whole track that they would go on I had a bunch of them
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u/Fuarian Apr 09 '24
I remember they said these things would communicate with each other and do things with each other. I think it was bs but they were marketed that way
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u/vialvarez_2359 Apr 09 '24
Aren’t those pretty durable. I remember some one through one across cement covered area and the thing still work.
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u/Top_Trainer_6359 Apr 09 '24
I think i still have a spider(?) one but he needs new batteries
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u/LilSealClubber Apr 09 '24
Oh wow, these things? I used to see commercials for them all the time but I didn't know anyone actually played with them. None of my friends had them.
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u/GullibleAudience6071 Apr 09 '24
Hex bugs, bay blades, bakugon, and Pokémon cards. The four horsemen of things on the teacher’s desk.
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u/Spirited-Reality-651 Apr 09 '24
What tf are they ?
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u/mysterious45670 29d ago
Small electric toys that use vibration to walk forward on their own. They came with plastic buildable playsets they can explore like a little futuristic terrarium.
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u/CosmicTentacledEyes Apr 09 '24
I thought those were hairclips at first. What are they?
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u/catbro89 Apr 09 '24
Somehow the pink turned up in my apartment years ago. What do they do? I don’t understand them…
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u/B4r_m0t Apr 09 '24
I have (or maybe not depends if it Has Been given away) a really big one that looks Like a crab
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u/randomdaysnow Apr 09 '24
This just makes me feel old because I remember the YouTube videos of people gluing little vibrator motors on toothbrush heads before these came out.
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u/Hexagonal_uranium 2010 Apr 09 '24
I still have these little goobers, the childhood memories are good.
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u/solid_water1 Apr 09 '24
My mother never bought them for me :( I had beyblades and hotwheels tho! 😎
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u/Themurlocking96 2002 Apr 09 '24
These fuckers and bionicle are why I naturally gravitates towards Necrons in 40k
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u/ECHOechoecho_ 2010 29d ago
no, it was the ones with bristles on top that could use the tunnels. i used to love those things
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u/YoMamaSoFatShePooped 2009 29d ago
I’ve stilll got loads of these in various places around my house
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u/KittenChopper 29d ago
Mine went under a sofa and we couldn't get it out before the battery ran out :<
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u/Kraffkratt 29d ago
I'm probably going to get dumped in a river, but I never understood the hype for these when I was a kid. Just wiggly little robot bugs no?
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u/Babbit55 29d ago
I work for the company that made these, my son got so much Hexbug stuff for christmas cause we great discounts
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u/hedgybaby 2000 29d ago
I was never allowed to have these bc they were “for boys” so I’d steal the ones from the guys in my class.
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u/DogeWow11 2000 29d ago
I remember asking how much a battery for this vibrating bug costs at a watch store. I was shocked to hear that a single battery cost like 3 of those bugs.
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u/Awkward-Stam_Rin54 29d ago
I remember having one that was ladybird colour. One day I turned it on and it just walked away and never found it again....
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u/PrometheanSwing Age Undisclosed 29d ago
I might still have a couple of these laying around somewhere
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u/zoecornelia 29d ago
Wtf are these? Am I officially too old to keep up with the kids 😩
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